Find School Safety Resources

These one-pagers outline key trainings and resources from the National Center for School Safety. Each document provides quick insights, useful resources, and discussion prompts to support implementation in the school community.

This online toolkit provides strategies and guidance on deterring, mitigating, and responding to mass attacks. It is designed to help reduce the likelihood of mass shootings and other public attacks, and reduce the casualties of completed attacks.

This resource is designed to assist K-12 stakeholders in conducting a discussion-based exercise focused on an active shooter threat. The situation manual is customizable and includes template exercise objectives and scenario and module questions to discuss pre-incident information and intelligence sharing, incident response, and recovery and continuity. 

This downloadable package is designed to support school systems and their partners with conducting tabletop exercises for various hazards.

This guide offers advice on how to talk to children about tragic events that they are likely to hear about at school and/or on the news.

This recording of a past event provides information on how to talk to youth about suicide risk, how to identify the warning signs of suicide, risk factors for suicide, and research on interventions for youth suicide prevention.

This program certifies federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners in the instruction of Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management best practices and techniques. It is designed to prepare partners to train their local communities and provides organizations with tools to help mitigate threats and prevent acts of terrorism and targeted violence.

This webpage provides an overview of sextortion and what parents, caregivers, and youth need to know about this crime.

This resource provides information and tips to help youth reduce the risks associated with being online.

This classroom activity is designed to supplement programming for middle and high school students by encouraging them to think twice about their use of digital technology.